Men's Health

"This landmark registry will facilitate more comprehensive knowledge of treatment and management [of Peyronie's disease] using real-world evidence," said Mohit Khera, MD.

Among patients who did not have a response during the first cycle, 60.8% achieved a response after the fourth.

“We are excited to report that a simple, low-cost intervention can positively [affect] young men’s willingness to engage with their health," says Wade Gutierrez.

“[Collagenase clostridium histolyticum (Xiaflex)] is an incredibly important part of the treatment armamentarium for Peyronie's disease in the US,” says Matthew J. Ziegelmann, MD.

The findings also highlighted the diversity of physicians performing the procedure in regard to background and outcomes.

Investigators found that mitigation methods such as adding a physical barrier or increasing distance could lessen the harmful effects.

A team of Cleveland Clinic urologists and pediatric oncologists has developed a streamlined testicular tissue collection and storage process. They have enrolled and cryopreserved testicular tissue for nearly a dozen young patients so far.

Using administrative claims data, investigators analyzed the opioid prescriptions filled for vasectomies before and after the expansion of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's modifier 22 program.

“You do need to be a little bit careful because of the risk of priapism,” says Joshua A. Broghammer, MD.

"With the average cost of treatment ranging from $2600 to $3900 per cycle, clinics offering radial wave therapy have an obvious financial incentive to continue marketing despite the lack of evidence of its effectiveness," write Navid Leelani, DO, and Scott D. Lundy, MD, PhD.

Two main options exist: sperm retrieval with assisted reproductive therapies or vasectomy reversal, according to Kevin J. Campbell, MD, MS.

Many of the medications used in the treatment of ED have interactions with other medications, so it is crucial to carefully examine patient profiles to optimize therapy and ensure safety.

“Healthy Now is really committed to making access to care available to all men,” says Mohit Khera, MD, MBA, MPH.

“Pregnant women have not been part of the vaccine clinical trials, but the CDC reported that there have been more than 150,000 women who got the vaccine while they were pregnant and there were absolutely no adverse effects,” says Hossein Sadeghi-Nejad, MD.

“It’s important for men to be aware that there are scientific mechanisms through which COVID-19 can affect male sexual function and male reproductive function," says Hossein Sadeghi-Nejad, MD.

In this interview, Justin Dubin, MD, discusses the development of treatments for male infertility.

“When you're talking about ‘impact,’ I don't think it gets any bigger than treating male infertility, because you're surgically treating the man, of course, but you're really treating the couple as a whole, and you're helping potentially create a new life,” says Justin Dubin, MD.

In their study, Joshua Halpern, MD, and co-investigators examined the link between low testosterone and frailty in veterans undergoing cancer surgery.

Urologists made up only 25% of shock wave therapy providers and 13% of the providers were not physicians.

"Now, men have the option to seek out something minimally invasive before surgical options are breached," says Denise Asafu-Adjei, MD, MPH.

In this interview, Steven Kaplan, MD, from the Men's Wellness Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York discusses treatment goals, shared decision-making, and long-term implications of currently available therapies for patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia.

“Whether it is E-cigarettes or other products, the goal should be complete cessation,” says Omar El Shahawy, MD, MPH, PhD.

In this interview, Omar El Shahawy, MD, MPH, PhD, discusses patient counseling in regard to e-cigarette use or vaping by using data from a recent study on evaluating the association of e-cigarette use and erectile dysfunction.

In this installment of the Urology Times' 50th Anniversary Innovation Celebration, Arthur L. Burnett, MD, MBA, FACS, discusses how sildenafil citrate (Viagra) has been an integral part of erectile dysfunction management for decades.

“We need to create this safe, comfortable, welcoming environment for men to talk about the things that they need to talk about,” says Justin Dubin, MD.

To destigmatize testosterone deficiency, Justin Dubin, MD, advises clinicians on how to create a comfortable space for their patients and advises patients on how to be comfortable with talking about their deficiency.

On this episode of Cleveland Clinic’s Cancer Advances podcast, Sarah Vij, MD, discusses the different fertility-sparing techniques used for both pre-pubertal and post-pubertal male cancer patients.

"Of note, there have been no studies demonstrating that vaccines negatively impact fertility or cause sterility in either sex," said Ranjith Ramasamy, MD.

“What's most important [is] that…one dose does not just fit all,” says Martin M. Miner, MD.

“The goal of this study was to look at that original phase 3 trial data [from 2013] and see if we could identify how much change in curvature patients were achieving with each of those 2 injections,” says Matthew J. Ziegelmann, MD.